"How'd they do that?" It's a question many a film buff has asked over the years about a fabled, and frightening, movie scene. David Edelstein tells us a new documentary holds the answer: Halloween's a ...

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock shocked audiences with the release of the horror film Psycho. Regarded as the first proto-slasher, along with Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, which came out the same year, ...

Horror is a very difficult territory for filmmakers because one wrong move can tarnish an entire movie. If a director decides to tone down the scares, they risk boring the audience with an excessively ...

"Psycho you felt could happen to you..." IFC Midnight has unveiled the first official trailer for a very unique filmmaking documentary titled 78/52, analyzing and examining the seminal shower scene ...

I'm generally not a fan of movie mashup videos, but this one's interesting: a score swap between Alfred Hitchcock's “Psycho” and David Robert Mitchell's 2015 box-office sleeper “It Follows.” I found ...

In the summer of 2020, a group of Hitchcock fans from Hungary (led by director Zoltán Vozó Végh) decided to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Psycho by reshooting the iconic shower scene starring 60 ...

THERE have been plenty of feature-length documentaries about the making of classic films, but “78/52” may be the first to focus on one classic scene. It could be the last, too—not because it isn’t ...

Marli Renfro’s life forever changed when she stripped down in the shower and was stabbed by Norman Bates. The former Playboy cover girl was quietly hired by filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock to be Janet ...

IFC Midnight has acquired domestic rights to director Alexandre O. Philippe’s “78/52,” the Sundance documentary that deconstructs the infamous shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock‘s “Psycho,” TheWrap ...

Somewhere Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic head is spinning. In what marks Bates Motel‘s latest and boldest source-material detour to date, Monday’s installment — which served as the conclusion of Rihanna’s ...

Logan Kelly is a professional author, screenwriter, and proud cinemaphile. He studied screenwriting and film history while attending Valencia College, before moving to the New York Metro Area. In the ...